mealie landn.

Brit.

/ˈmiːlɪ ˌland/, U.S.

/ˈmili ˌlæn(d)/, South African English

/ˈmiːli ˌlænd/

Forms: 1800s– mealie land, 1900s– mealieland, 1900s– mielie land, 1900s– mielieland.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mealie n., land n.¹

Etymology: < mealie n. + land n.¹ Compare Afrikaans mielieland.

South African.

A maize field.

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1879 Boy’s Own Paper 19 July 422/3 ‘There's three or four h'acres of they mealies as was just a getting fit to use quite destroyed!’ ‘The mealie land! You don’t say so!’

1888 Harper's Mag. July 191/1 Elephants..had destroyed a whole patch of mealie land.

1900 F. R. M. Cleaver in M. M. Cleaver Young S. Afr. (1913) 123 Menton remarks the mealie lands are looking well all along the road, but I prefer the kafir koorn.

1926 O. Schreiner From Man to Man i. 78 Near the mielie lands.

1962 Cape Times 13 June 1/4 A Harvard aircraft..crashed in a mealie land near Dunnottar.

1973 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 18 Apr. 34 Natal smothered under sugarcane, the highveld..endless mielielands, the Boland one huge wheatfield.

1985 S. Afr. Panorama May 9 Nearby was a large mealieland (maize field) with two women farm workers whose sole job it was to chase away hill-dwelling baboons.

2012 M. Poland Taken Captive by Birds vi. 44 They liked the furrowed rows, turned up by the hoe in this outlying mealie land.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mealie land
释义	mealie landn. Brit. /ˈmiːlɪ ˌland/, U.S. /ˈmili ˌlæn(d)/, South African English /ˈmiːli ˌlænd/ Forms: 1800s– mealie land, 1900s– mealieland, 1900s– mielie land, 1900s– mielieland. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mealie n., land n.¹ Etymology: < mealie n. + land n.¹ Compare Afrikaans mielieland. South African. A maize field. ΚΠ 1879 Boy’s Own Paper 19 July 422/3 ‘There's three or four h'acres of they mealies as was just a getting fit to use quite destroyed!’ ‘The mealie land! You don’t say so!’ 1888 Harper's Mag. July 191/1 Elephants..had destroyed a whole patch of mealie land. 1900 F. R. M. Cleaver in M. M. Cleaver Young S. Afr. (1913) 123 Menton remarks the mealie lands are looking well all along the road, but I prefer the kafir koorn. 1926 O. Schreiner From Man to Man i. 78 Near the mielie lands. 1962 Cape Times 13 June 1/4 A Harvard aircraft..crashed in a mealie land near Dunnottar. 1973 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 18 Apr. 34 Natal smothered under sugarcane, the highveld..endless mielielands, the Boland one huge wheatfield. 1985 S. Afr. Panorama May 9 Nearby was a large mealieland (maize field) with two women farm workers whose sole job it was to chase away hill-dwelling baboons. 2012 M. Poland Taken Captive by Birds vi. 44 They liked the furrowed rows, turned up by the hoe in this outlying mealie land. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1879
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